As a researcher of Islay history and
genealogy for decades, I have accumulated information about Islay gravestones from
personal visits, available transcriptions and online friends. Whenever I needed to access
information, this led to searches through piles of papers and FRUSTRATION...there had to
be a better way! My love of Islay encourages me to continue to save its history as I am
able from a distance. Wont you join the effort? Sue
(McCuaig) Visser

Walking
through Islay cemeteries, you cannot help but worry about the loss of historical
information by the deterioration of the stones by the lichen

Ancient groundstones found
at Loch Finlaggan. Members of the Lords of the Isles family were buried here. The
Lords are buried at Iona

Kildalton Cross is the only surviving complete Celtic High Cross in
Scotland. It was carved about AD 800 from local blue stone that resists the growth of
lichen, unlike most other gravestones

How tragic it would be
to lose the beauty or the information from Islay gravestones!!!